[Jim727]

Amazing times - I was living in Berlin then and even though I knew history was in the making it took a while for the magnitude to sink in. Was at the Brandenburg Gate for both the first New Year (Silvester) and October Wiedervereinigung. Even today it seems surreal.

Right after the wall fell I went to Bauhaus to get a good chisel. Behind the Reichstag I was working doing my bit to dismantle the thing and locals would come up and ask for pieces. I finally got to where I would give them the hammer and chisel along with "selbst bedienung" (self-service). They would grin, take a few whacks of revenge and then get their pictures taken with the hammer and wall.

Both partitions considered themselves to be the "only" Germany. I remember following a road sign to Berlin while in Potsdam - seemed to be a strange routing but that happens. The routing was to East Berlin, southerly around the non-existent West Berlin.

So many memories...